Why was the end to communism in Czechoslovakia termed the “Velvet Revolution”?
What was the most important effect of opening East Germany’s borders?
What best describes Yugoslavia before its breakup?
What was the Berlin Wall?
What was the “Velvet Divorce”?
If Serbia had used the term “murder” rather than “ethnic cleansing” to describe its actions against Muslims, it is likely that they would have
In 1980, Lech Walesa led a worker’s strike in
Why did the economies of the former East German areas collapse during reunification?
The first step in the reunification of East and West Germany was uniting their
Read this excerpt from a summary of events in Srebrenica.Zina Hasanovic is one of the lucky ones – she knows what happened to her husband, Haris. As Serbian bullets raced through a group of tightly-packed Muslim prisoners, Haris, mortally wounded, fell on top of his first cousin and best friend, Mevludin Oric. Mevludin lay on the ground, covered in blood and for hours pretended to be dead. He managed to escape to tell Zina of her husband’s fate.Why is Zina Hasanovic referred to as “one of the lucky ones”?
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